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`12/8/2020
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`TikTok puts Austin hiring on hold after Trump executive order - Austin Business Journal
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`TECHNOLOGY
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`TikTok puts Austin hiring on hold
`after Trump executive order
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`Popular social media app TikTok is
`caught up in a political fight
`between President Donald Trump
`and China.
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`RAFAEL HENRIQUE/SOPA
`IMAGES/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES
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`By Erin Edgemon
`Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal
`Aug 17, 2020, 8:43am EDT
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`Erly this yer — beore the Covid-19 pndemic hit Austin —
`video-shring pp TikTok quietly opened n oce
`downtown.
`
`But little ws known bout the compny's opertions in the
`Texs cpitl beore President Donld Trump’s Aug. 6
`executive order. It declred the pp  ntionl security
`thret becuse it is owned by Chinese compny ByteDnce.
`Trump promised to bn it rom the United Sttes unless it is
`sold.
`
`TikTok, which becme  senstion mid the pndemic with
`celebrities nd influencers shring short videos, hs less
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`https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2020/08/17/tiktok-austin-hiring-on-hold.html
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`thn 100 employees in Austin. Beore the coronvirus sent
`oce workers home in mid-Mrch, these employees were
`working out o WeWork spce t the SWSW Center t 14th
`nd Lvc streets, ccording to the compny, which did not
`respond to questions bout how much squre ootge it
`occupies.
`
`Medi outlets begn reporting on Aug. 9 tht TikTok hd
`plns to hire hundreds in Austin despite Trump’s order.
`TikTok hs since stted tht it hd committed to creting
`10,000 jobs cross the country in the next three yers,
`including 2,000 in Texs, but the executive order “puts
`those new jobs in jeoprdy.”
`
`“While we're orced to hold on tht hiring until we hve
`urther clrity rom the dministrtion, we're working hrd
`to ensure tht we cn oer employment or yers to come s
`we build n enduring pltorm or our users, cretors,
`prtners, nd the broder community in the US,” 
`sttement sent to medi outlets sid.
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`In n Aug. 14 emil, TikTok sid its Austin oce supports
`tems tht work with brnd dvertisers nd prtners.
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`Though everyone is working from
`home amid the pandemic, TikTok
`leases an undisclosed amount of
`office space at the WeWork in the
`SXSW Center. The building is the
`headquarters for South by
`Southwest but the largest tenant is
`WeWork.
`
`SXSW
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`TikTok hs not disclosed i it hd
`plns to hire workers in other
`Texs cities besides Austin. The pp's website still lists tht
`it is hiring or 46 positions in Austin, but not in ny other
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`https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2020/08/17/tiktok-austin-hiring-on-hold.html
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`Texs cities. The Austin posts re in sles, humn resources,
`opertions nd mrketing.
`
`"We're proud to build our presence in Austin nd be  prt o
`the thriving business nd tech community loclly,” Blke
`Chndlee, TikTok’s vice president o Globl Business
`Solutions, sid in  sttement. “The Austin community
`embodies the sme cretive nd entrepreneuril spirit tht
`denes the TikTok community, nd we re going to do ll
`we cn to ensure our compny's uture in Texs nd the
`U.S.”
`
`Chndlee,  ormer Fcebook Inc. vice president, works out
`o TikTok's Austin oce.
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`TikTok did not respond to questions on how hiring ws
`going mid the pndemic nd whether it plnned to lese
`permnent oce spce in Austin in the ner uture.
`
`As Trump’s 90-dy dedline or ByteDnce to sell its U.S.
`opertions drws closer, some investment nd technology
`rms re trying to nd wys to keep the pp unctioning,
`Silicon Vllley Business Journl reported. Lst month, some
`o those investors prepred  bid tht vlued TikTok t more
`thn $30 billion. It's not known i ny o them re involved
`in current bids to buy it.
`
`ByteDnce ws vlued t bout $100 billion in its most
`recent unding round, ccording to the report.
`
`Microsot ppers to be the ront-runner to buy TikTok's
`United Sttes services but Twitter Inc. hs lso reportedly
`hd conservtions with the pp's owners, the Wll Street
`Journl reported.
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